Time Delay Quotes

Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds.

Normally, Indian companies follow the trend set by companies abroad. There is usually a long lag period.

My second film 'Johnny Gaddar' got delayed because of financial reasons. The film was taken over by another production house and in the process we lost a year.

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

The more urgent the message, the more slowly it moves—but those are the penalties of security.

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.